Spreading of Grapevine Nepoviruses in the Municipality of Rahovec, Kosovo

LUMTA DIDA¹, DHURATA SHEHU², THANAS RUCI²

¹Faculty of Agriculture, University of Prishtina, Kosovo 

²Department of Plant Protection Department, Agricultural University of Tirana, Albania

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Abstract

Research on the spread of nepoviruses – Grapevine fanleaf virus GFLV and Arabis mosaic virus (ArMV) have been performed at several grape growing farms in the Rahovec municipality. In this area are sampled varieties: Afuzali, Demirkapi, Groqanka, Melnik, Pllovdin, Prokupe, Smederev, Vranac, Game, Italian Rizling and Zhillavk. According to ELISA test results, from 165 grape samples in Rahovec municipality tested by the ELISA method for nepoviruses – Grapevine fanleaf virus GFLV and Arabis mosaic virus ArMV, (1%) are infected with Arabis mosaic virus ArMV and (2.7%) are infected with Grapevine fanleaf virus GFLV.

Keywords: ELISA method, grapevine, viruses, nepoviruses, varieties.